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A leading Swedish politician says the country is
facing a refugee catastrophe, which will lead to the “country
collapsing.” The bold claims were made by Foreign Minister Margot
Wallstrom, who adds the EU needs to do more to take the strain off
Stockholm.

The northern European country expects to accommodate around 190,000
by the turn of the year, but this is putting a strain on the country
both economically and socially. Wallstrom says that Stockholm needs
more help and intends to put pressure on European Union member
states to take a greater share of the burden the continent is facing
from the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Africa.

“I think most people feel that we cannot maintain a system where
perhaps 190,000 people will arrive every year – in the long run, our
system will collapse. And that welcome is not going to receive
popular support,” said Wallstrom, who is also a member of the
Social Democrat party.

However, not everyone in Europe is wanting to follow Sweden’s lead,
while along with Germany, the Scandinavian nation is one of the most
popular destinations for refugees, due to its generous benefits
system.

“I have to admit that there have been moments recently of very great
disappointment. I have heard statements from member states that have
been completely astonishing and very discouraging,” the foreign
minister added in an interview with Dagens Nyheter, which was cited
by The Local.

Closer to home, Wallstrom has also highly critical of the far-right
Sweden Democrats, who have been “creating
fear and are becoming the trigger for attacks.” Sweden has been
rocked by a number of arson attacks against refugee centers and the
foreign minister says a worrying trend is being repeated.

“We also had fires when we received refugees from the Balkans. This
is a pattern that is being repeated. The Sweden Democrats have a
responsibility,” she said speaking to the Dagens Nyheter
newspaper. Wallstrom was referring to the mass number of immigrants
the Scandinavian country accepted following the break-up of the
former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

The foreign minister has called on the Sweden Democrats to condemn
the crimes saying more must be done to try and stop the arson
attacks. Wallstrom noted that Swedish Democrat activists in the
university town of Lund had been spreading addresses of planned
refugee sites.

Sweden experienced five arson attacks against refugee centers in the
space of two weeks in October. All the buildings were apparently set
on fire on the eve of opening their doors to migrants and refugees,
who have come to Sweden from countries in the Middle East and North
Africa devastated by domestic conflicts and outside interventions.

The Swedish authorities say that, in view of the suspected
arsonists’ tactics, they are keeping secret the exact plans to
welcome new groups of asylum seekers for fear of new attacks.
However, so far the locations of some centers are apparently being
discovered or leaked, with 14 suspected arson attacks on refugee
centers in Sweden since the start of the year.

Meanwhile Swedish police say a man who killed two people at a school
in Trollhattan, in the south of the country“was
driven by racist motives.”

The 21 year-old went on a rampage on October 22 with a sword, before
he was shot by police and died of his wounds in hospital.

"We are convinced that the assailant was driven by racist motives
when he carried out the act," he said. "We have reached this
conclusion based on what we found when we searched his apartment and
his behavior during the act, and also on the basis of how he
selected his victims,” Police Chief Niclas Hallgren said on
October 23.